National Day to Demand Action

[piece-itpete]

That's fantastic!

Agreed on the military though. If I would've been accepted I'd have shot a lot of poeple by now, so I guess it worked out for the best.

I became an evil salesman

Btw, you mean LBJ, right?

Pete

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

That's fantastic!

Agreed on the military though. If I would've been accepted I'd have shot a lot of poeple by now, so I guess it worked out for the best.

I became an evil salesman

Btw, you mean LBJ, right?

Pete

Did the roofing schtick for a few years, piecework paid the best and as an added bonus I got to intimidate plumbers. Azzhole's were always cutting holes in my work. Spent the next 17 years in retail furniture, again piecework after a fashion. Commission sales with a draw ending with being a store mgr.
Woo hoo! More work and less money!

Got tired of that and went back to the trades. Voila! I'm a small business owner payin' higher taxes than most working stiffs and I still get to badmouth plumbers. Why they insist on cutting framing or better yet, getting out a Hole Hawg and really doing some damage to the framing is beyond me. Maybe my animosity is a holdover from hearing about Nixon's plumbing crew?
At least LBJ didn't have to go on national TV and say, "I am not a crook."

[piece-itpete]

Note to self: roofers hate plumbers

You're an evil small business owner lol.

When I'm having people trouble (or worse yet my own mistakes!) I often wish I was back fixing machines (I was 'machine maintenence' for a few years). I think I'm now happiest doing easy or medium car repairs.

Pete

[bobabode]

Roofers hate everyone below them on a jobsite. Their brains are fried, there is no shade on a roof. In the beginning we always brought a cooler full of pony sized Rolling Rock up on the roof. I guess that behavior is frowned upon these days.

We probably roofed Finnbows house back in the '70s.

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Did the roofing schtick for a few years, piecework paid the best and as an added bonus I got to intimidate plumbers. Azzhole's were always cutting holes in my work. Spent the next 17 years in retail furniture, again piecework after a fashion. Commission sales with a draw ending with being a store mgr.
Woo hoo! More work and less money!

Got tired of that and went back to the trades. Voila! I'm a small business owner payin' higher taxes than most working stiffs and I still get to badmouth plumbers. Why they insist on cutting framing or better yet, getting out a Hole Hawg and really doing some damage to the framing is beyond me. Maybe my animosity is a holdover from hearing about Nixon's plumbing crew?
At least LBJ didn't have to go on national TV and say, "I am not a crook."

One of the houses I flipped, back in the day, had two bathrooms. In both bathrooms the floors were "spongey" under the toilets.

Care to venture a guess why?

Dave

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

One of the houses I flipped, back in the day, had two bathrooms. In both bathrooms the floors were "spongey" under the toilets.

Care to venture a guess why?

Dave

Plumbers hate floor joists, especially if there's a bearing wall below them. Idjits!

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Plumbers hate floor joists, especially if there's a bearing wall below them. Idjits!

You got it. They cut right through both of them. What sucked is the inspector made me fix it before I left. The house had been like that for 12 years.

Dave

[piece-itpete]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Roofers hate everyone below them on a jobsite. Their brains are fried, there is no shade on a roof. In the beginning we always brought a cooler full of pony sized Rolling Rock up on the roof. I guess that behavior is frowned upon these days.

We probably roofed Finnbows house back in the '70s.

'brains are fried' LMAO!!

We drank the same thing when I spend 2 years as a laborer for a stonemason. So good when it's hot!

Pete

[finnbow]

Roofers and asphalt workers inhabitant the lowest rungs of the social ladder on a construction site. Too much heat and too many fumes, methinks.

[bobabode]

Indeed. Then I became a salesman. A step down it appears in retrospect.
Oh, well - at least I'm back to honest work these days...